This open letter is written in an attempt to
interest some members of the free software movement in an abundance paradigm,
and simply be willing to discuss it. If enough people can be found who
can simply think about an abundance paradigm, it could create sufficient
awareness to make it happen. Not only would humanity’s current
sled-ride-to-oblivion halt, but heaven-on-earth can also manifest. The
nuts-and-bolts of making an abundance paradigm a daily reality already exist
but unfortunately are suppressed to keep humanity enslaved to a paradigm based
on scarcity, something that I learned first-hand long ago.

Many members of the free software movement
may be closer to comprehending an abundance paradigm than about any people that
I have yet encountered. A member of your community believes that some in
the free software movement already comprehend the abundance paradigm, so my
task may be easier than I think.

I recently wrote an essay on what an abundance paradigm looks like and what it does not look
like. Economic abundance will be the root of an abundance paradigm.
Without economic abundance, almost all other abundance ideas are wishful
thinking. I discovered the hard way that personal
integrity is earth’s scarcest commodity, and have been searching for a high
integrity group for nearly twenty years. I believe that personal
integrity is the key to making an abundance paradigm appear.
Personal integrity has obviously fueled the efforts of many in the free
software movement’s ranks, which is why I am writing this essay.

I am not writing as a theorist, but as an
activist. I was involved in the most significant effort that I am aware
of to bring alternative energy to the American marketplace. During that
bizarre odyssey, I discovered that free energy already exists. By free
energy, I mean virtually limitless, non-polluting, zero-operating-cost
energy. I recently wrote a five-page essay that
outlines my journey. While some of that essay may seem unbelievable,
every significant fact is linked to the pertinent part of my 1,200-page
website. I provide support for every assertion that I make, and limit my
discussions to facts and ideas that people can prove to themselves.

I am an American and my work is directed
largely to Americans, but the dynamics I will relate in this essay have global
relevance. The nationalistic fables that the Chinese and Israeli people
are raised with will necessarily be different than the nationalistic fables
that Americans are raised with, but the goal is the
same: controlling what people think. Contrary to the myths of American
nationalism, America’s Founding Fathers did
not invent freedom. However, ever since the English civil war in the 1600s, the ruling
classes of English-speaking lands have had limited ability to control their
subjects through violence. Therefore, the ruling classes had to try to
control what people thought. Ideological indoctrination is as old as civilization, but controlling what
people think has become a science in America, because what they think does
matter to their ruling class.

The ideologies
that Americans are raised with are based on the scarcity paradigm and
are egocentric because they elevate one group of people at the expense of
others, and finding one’s self on the “winning team” is the primary reason
those ideologies find fertile ground. Also, those ideologies are fed
to people when they are young and vulnerable, and most people never again
question their indoctrination. If those ideologies are challenged, most
believers resort to highly irrational defenses of them, a phenomenon vividly
evident in America since September 1, 2001. My “peers” - white educated
American men - have always been the most irrational
and vicious critics of my work, and not many can read more than a few
pages without blowing a fuse. That reaction seems to be because I show
how our status as history’s most privileged demographic group is not due to
our unique virtue.

After several years of effort, I realized
that attempting to interest the general public in my work was futile for
now. I have focused my efforts toward potentially receptive groups for
years, but have yet to find that group. Again, personal integrity has
been the most important quality to assist comprehension, and those with the
highest integrity also have lain aside more of the egocentric ideologies.
I have referred those ideologies as “mind-crutches.”

In addition to laying aside the
mind-crutches, a critical realization helps a world of abundance appear.
Scarcity is the bedrock assumption of virtually every earthly ideology, and
scarcity and failure are nearly hardwired into human consciousness, something
that R. Buckminster Fuller clearly saw.
The scarcity assumption is so deeply baked into human awareness that it is
invisible to most people, like the air we breathe. In real terms, all
civilizations and all economies for all time have ridden
atop their ability to extract, conserve and consume energy, and civilizations have collapsed when they ran out of
energy. Everything else in economics is of secondary importance, and
there are telling statistics that spell it
out very clearly. However, in a world of scarcity, most of what passes
for economics today focuses on who enjoys the benefit of the scarce economic
production, not how the production is attained.

Today’s Americans consume about eighty times
the energy that is provided by our diets. That energy consumption is
almost entirely responsible for our standard of living. Money, banking,
accounting and laws deal with the exchange aspect of economics, and are largely
meaningless in a world of economic abundance. Many “radical” ideas in
economics focus almost exclusively on its exchange aspect. For instance,
Michael Albert’s radical economic manifesto, Parecon, does not even
discuss the energy issue. If everybody on earth had access to a thousand
(or hundred thousand) times the energy that their diets provided, the exchange
aspect of economics would no longer be the focus of attention that it is today.
The economic “radicals” are focused on slicing up humanity’s scarce economic
pie more equitably, and ignore making the pie bigger. If the pie were
a hundred times bigger than it is today, people would not be fighting to enlarge
or preserve their slice. With free energy, that quantum leap in the
human standard of living could be made with no environmental impact.
A world of abundance can look a lot like
heaven-on-earth.

However, the people that rule the world
understand the issue of energy and economics and are addicted to “power.”
Consequently, they have been vigilant to ensure that free energy, anti-gravity
and other technologies do not make it into the public’s hands. They
offered my partner perhaps as much as a billion
dollars to stop pursuing free energy in the 1980s. I call those
people the “Big Boys” in my work, and they informed a leading figure in the
free energy effort that they have paid out $100
billion in quiet money over the past few generations to prevent people from
bringing those advanced technologies to the public. That quiet money is
one of their “benign” tactics. When the big carrot did not work on my
partner, the Big Boys used the big stick, and
they used our corrupt legal system to wipe us out, and I watched many lives get
destroyed, including my own. I have since discovered that our treatment
was a fairly standard tactic, although more
extreme in our case, because we were probably closer to delivering significant
alternative energy to the American marketplace than anybody else has ever
come.

I do not tell the tale of our adventures to elicit a piteous response, but largely
to address the most
naïve and common response to the free energy issue: “If free energy devices
really existed, I should be able to buy one.” Denial is by far the most
common response to our experiences, but almost nobody has ever had a
constructive response to the issue. If people can get past denial (by
looking into the situation for themselves), they usually have other
unproductive reactions.

A key to solving the free energy conundrum
is walking the razor’s edge of acknowledging the suppression but not succumbing
to paranoia, revenge, hopelessness and other unproductive,
fear-based reactions. I know of only a handful of people who may
possess the qualities needed to lead a free energy effort over the finish line.
The “hundred
heroes” model of making free energy happen seems unviable, because those
hundred heroes may not exist. I have therefore attempted a seemingly less
perilous strategy: educating people on the free energy
conundrum and helping a vision of abundance
take root. However, at this time, free energy and a world of abundance
has proven itself unthinkable to the vast majority of humanity, a
situation that the Big Boys have carefully managed.

My experience is that those who cannot
comprehend abundance are leaning heavily on their mind-crutches. Perhaps
the most crippling mind-crutch among the technically trained are the “laws of
physics.” NASA was advised long ago that scientists may be the group most
threatened by the fact of extraterrestrial
visitors, as their worldview may crumble when confronted by intelligence
and technology orders of magnitude beyond our own. Today, anybody can go
to a ranch in Washington State and watch extraterrestrial
craft fly by every night. If they fly low, our military will attack
them. The attacks are not to protect humans from ETs, but to protect the
world’s power structure from people having access to free energy and related
technologies. In fact, the Big Boys have long possessed free energy,
anti-gravity and other exotic technologies - largely due to reverse engineering
captured ET craft. I know people who have had
such technologies demonstrated for their benefit. Experienced people
in the field realize that the revelations of free energy, anti-gravity and
related technologies invalidate almost
everything we “know” about physics. Albert Einstein cheerfully realized that we know almost nothing
about how the universe operates, but the scientific establishment’s
defenders aver that we have it all figured out,
which has been a persistent notion for the entirety of science’s history.
I have known some world-class scientific and
inventive minds, and they all had Einstein’s attitude about how much we
really “know.” History’s greatest physicists were almost all, to one
degree or another, mystics. However, a
rationalist-materialist paradigm has dominated the scientific establishment’s
worldview for centuries. The rationalist-materialist paradigm is a form
of religion. It is a subtler religion than what is called organized
religion, but it has its priests, popes and Inquisition.

Will the lust for power disappear with free
energy’s appearance? I doubt it will entirely vanish, but those hooked on
their power trip will no longer be able to keep humanity mired in misery so
they can play god (also called ruling in hell). Lust for power will not
completely die out, but it would no longer run the show in a world of
abundance.

There are many
pitfalls on the path of pursuing free energy, but the most formidable may
be the unwillingness to even imagine it. Here are some recent
examples of this phenomenon. Richard Heinberg may be earth’s most
prominent “Peak Oil” advocate. He writes dismissively
about free energy, but declined a friendly
invitation to be educated from the inside about the very situations that he
dismissed. He frames the world energy situation in a neo-Malthusian
paradigm of endless-growth/overshoot-and-collapse. He does not seem capable
of comprehending an abundance paradigm, and instead preaches austerity as the only viable solution
to humanity’s energy situation. After years of interacting with
“environmentalists,” I realized that they do not want to hear about free
energy, which could heal the environment like nothing else. Their
solution is “let’s ride bikes” and other austerity measures (tactics that Fuller made clear were doomed), and Heinberg has
been adopted as one of their prophets. I have largely been in seclusion
on the free energy issue for several years, but have lately been entering some
public discussions. Not long ago, I was introduced to an anarchist
discussion of Peak Oil and the energy issue. Anarchists have largely laid
aside the nationalist and capitalist mind-crutches, but did not present even
one thoughtful response to my posts. I was quickly dismissed, then
ignored. Unfortunately, those have been the standard reactions to my
offers to get educated on what may be the most important issue on earth today,
by people who say they are seeking solutions. I rarely even hear
back from the people I make the offer to.

I have greater hopes for the free software
movement, as the ideas put forth by Richard Stallman, Eben Moglen and others
neatly align with the abundance paradigm, and in my work I make it clear what three
factors led to humanity’s rise on earth: energy,
manipulative ability and intelligence. The reproduction of intelligence
is in its infancy. I consider the free software movement’s members to be
fellow travelers and possibly much more. I have designed information
systems professionally, and have given away a way to use software to
immediately and dramatically raise the standard of
living of millions of Americans, turning a miserable profession into
something much more pleasant. I have yet to find a receptive audience to
the idea, but the free software movement can help make it happen.
Technically, making my idea come to fruition would be easy. Is there any
interest in dialogue?